More from Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  1. We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
  2. Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.
  3. The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.
  4. Charity is a fashionable virtue in our time; it is lit up by the gigantic firelight of Dickens. Hope is a fashionable virtue to-day; our at…
  5. There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
  6. The weak point in the whole of Carlyle's case for aristocracy lies, indeed, in his most celebrated phrase. Carlyle said that men were mostl…
  7. As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
  8. Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. The word 'klep…

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